Occupation

Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians

Operate, install, adjust, and maintain integrated computer/communications systems, consoles, simulators, and other data acquisition, test, and measurement instruments and equipment, which are used to launch, track, position, and evaluate air and space vehicles. May record and interpret test data.

73 AI exposure

42 Human advantage

61 Market demand

59 AI leverage

Is Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians a safe career from AI?

Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians scores 73 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 42. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 61 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 11.9% over ten years.

What Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians pay

The median wage is $79,830 a year. The lower quarter earns under $64,570 and the upper quarter over $102,220. About 9,060 people do this work in the United States.

Where Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 84% of the skills carry over $128k median

Marine Engineers and Naval Architects 84% of the skills carry over $106k median

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay 82% of the skills carry over $101k median

Nuclear Technicians 78% of the skills carry over $104k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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